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Yeah... some folks just kinda' never turn the TV off. Some of those default to fox, and so...

OH MY GOD IT'S STILL PLAYING IN THE BACKGROUND

Now imagine it playing in the background pretty much non-stop. More or less the entire day. Sometimes literally the entire day, with people leaving it on while they sleep. Something approaching that isn't terribly uncommon among conservative households.

And from what you mentioned it sounds like you tuned in for one of the less out there bits. It gets worse :V

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Something you have but don't use for two hundred.

Does listening to classical music count as a guilty pleasure, or does that just make me a pretentious snob?

Of course, I say this listening to Rachmaninov's Symphony No. 2. Specifically a non-truncated version that also plays the loop in the first movement.

Depends a lot on the circles you run in. Bit on how generally exposed to the stuff the area is, too. But it can be the former. Less so the latter unless you are a pretentious snob about it. Folks generally seem to be fairly okay with someone that just likes a nice bit of classical, though, at least if the setting's right and they're not particularly exclusive about it.

... and not many people can rag too hard on stuff like the 1812. One of the most metal songs in existence, that -- not many bits of music out there can lay claim to using straight up artillery as a musical instrument. You know a performance just got real when the entirely literal cannons get rolled out.

But...I don't think they're doing that?

I... think they were? Fairly explicitly, actually. Current thread of discussion started with talking about not being aware of a possible latent bisexuality, that appeared to be at least partially caused by a previous conviction of asexuality. That'd be an example of an unknown known (the bisexuality, which the hormones et al were apparently pretty aware of) being suppressed by a self-categorization (the asexuality). It seems to be sliding towards a known known, but that previous categorization quite likely got in the way of it, slowed it down or delayed the realization, possibly by quite a bit.

And it's basically something we know but don't know we know, mech. A fairly mundane example would be an organization having a particular bit of data on someone tucked away in a cabinet somewhere, without anything else pointing to its existence. The organization has the information, they just don't know they have it. Another would be just stuff like test taking -- being unable to recall something, possibly even that you studied it at all, but then going a series of problems before being able to recall it again; the information didn't take a jaunt out into the aether during the interim, but you weren't aware of what it was. Biology, it probably comes up the most with sensory stuff, being subconsciously aware of this or that without being consciously aware. Unidentified gender identity mismatch is another fairly common expression -- the body/brain knows the problem, but it's not recognized. Stuff like that. Things you're aware of, but have no actual cognizance that you are.

Least if I'm remember everything correctly. I don't even recall where I last ran into something approach a formal treatment of the heuristic, so it's very possible I'm not.

Pretty sure you just need to search through the food thread a bit, heh.

It... it's been a long time since I've listened to merzbow. Noise music in general, for more than a few minutes. ~Twenty in right now. It's still nice ;_;

Ach, how mean. Hardstyle isn't noise music* at all. I've been tricked

*Warning: Actual noise music.
E: Secondary warning: That no-joke deserves a warning. Probably keep the volume low-ish if you do follow the link.